The Big Five (Personality Traits)

 Our personalities can be broadly categorized into four categories and we'll use the acronym OCEAN to elaborate on it. Before getting started let's talk about why we need to understand personalities at the very first place. Well it helps in predicting behavior oh other people, and getting to know yourself better, that's why. Our behavior is influenced by two main factors, personality and situation.

Back to the OCEAN acronym. These are the big five personality traits of humans :
O : Openness
C : Conscientiousness
E : Extroversion
A : Agreeableness
N : Neuroticism

Let's talk about the big five in some detail.

Openness : This trait is all about how an individual perceives new experience.
Someone with high openness is likely to be open minded, enjoying change, future oriented.
Someone with low openness is likely to be close minded, prefer things to stay as they are, past     oriented.

Conscientiousness : Being dutiful and wishing to do one's work well is being conscientious.
Dutiful, reliable, organized are common traits of conscientious people.
People who are less conscientious are generally laid back, disorganized, unreliable.

Extroversion : Extroversion is all about your interactions with other homo sapiens.
Extroversion people are generally outgoing, talkative, and enjoy group activities.
Introverted people are quiet thinkers, and enjoy being by themselves.

Agreeableness : There's a fine line between being empathetic and sucking up right?
Agreeable people are friendly, compassionate, and cooperative.
Disagreeable people are unfriendly, detached, competitive.

Neuroticism : There's nothing positive about this trait, you don't wanna be a neurotic, yet we all are capable of being neurotic.
Neurotic people are emotionally unstable, restless, insecure, prone to psychological problems.
People who are not neurotic are emotionally stable, secure, calm , have good psychological health.